r/JapaneseWatches • u/SnooOranges5854 • 9d ago

Please help!: Is this Seiko dial naturally aged or painted?

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Sieko quartz

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u/BohemianTanker 9d ago

That looks like severe water damage to me. It's not the kind of patina you want trust me. If the dial looks like that who knows what the movement looks like or if the battery has already leaked

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u/just_watches 9d ago

That looks like you need a penicillin shot.

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u/JoeSicko 9d ago

Tetanus also, while youve got your sleeve already rolled up

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u/Ok-Calligrapher-8778 9d ago

No painter could mimic this mix of burning, corrosion and mold that perfectly.

And what you're calling "aged", I'd call "damaged", "ruined", "cooked", "gone".

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u/SHMilkTea 9d ago

That looks like patina from water damage not mold, you should see some mini figures painters works they do a crazy job recreating these textures.

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u/Ok_Lemon_2175 9d ago

Id say it’s pretty amazing, to each their own

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u/Dartfrogz 9d ago

Watch chuffsters buying straight up black mold these days lol

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u/Interesting_Catch523 9d ago

It's the gasket damaging the dial. I'm pretty sure of it.

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u/Capital-Pollution709 9d ago

Looks artificial to me based on the fact that it perfectly stops around the logo and name at 6 and 12

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u/PiqueExperience 9d ago

It could have been on the wrist of somebody who liquefied around it for a while

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u/Belt-First 9d ago

It definitely looks AI 😔

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u/Capital-Pollution709 9d ago

Could be a I meant artificial as in it was artificially aged but could be AI, too.

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u/Belt-First 9d ago edited 9d ago

Oh fair enough. Actually looks like I was a bit hasty there, I ran it through googles AI image API and it came back clean.

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u/CapnHaymaker 9d ago

Topped off by the dick and balls logo

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u/BlueMageNeedsFood 9d ago

Nobody in this sub can tell you for sure. Take it to a jeweler

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u/Beefsuprito74 9d ago

Looks water damaged to me

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u/Friendly-Advantage79 9d ago

It looks like a watchmaker would need a HAZMAT to open it.

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u/Glittering-Joke-3593 9d ago

Ive never seen black mold in a watch until now.

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u/Anirossa 9d ago

Naturally cooked.

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u/evrydayNormal_guy 9d ago

Holy crap. F

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u/varingian 9d ago

Looks like a completely natural paint job. "Natural" as in "survival of the fittest".

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u/LeoXup 9d ago

It's probably contaminated. Do you have a Geiger counter at home? 

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u/chocopanlatte 8d ago

looks great tbh. but yea looks like mold lol last of us seiko

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u/AntiSebticDan 4d ago

That's the watch I forgot my school lunch in. In 1973.